Georgia Tann was a millionaire. The source of her money? The 5,000 children she stole and sold over the course of thirty years.
Tann operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. She used the unlicensed home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s until a state investigation closed the institution in 1950.
Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public. bit.ly/3kaH01x
Doctors, working with her, told new mothers their babies had died during birth. Those children were "buried" at no cost to the families.

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